Spiders are not well preserved in the fossil record because of their soft exoskeletons, so our understanding of these ancient arachnids is fairly limited. But in rare cases, spiders can become ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – An Oregon State University (OSU) researcher found a new species of an ant-mimicking spider in a rare fossil from Colombia, the university announced Monday. The specimen ...

The researchers have only the footprints, no fossil bones. There’s no way to ... There were plenty of bugs, such as scorpions and spiders. So there was nourishment there for a creature that ...

“Only four spider fossils have ever been found throughout the whole continent, which has made it difficult for scientists to understand their evolutionary history," McCurry said in a news release ...

While researchers knew the 1.5-meter-long (about 5-foot-long) slab was around 200 million years old and home to an abundance of visible dinosaur footprints, the significance of the fossil remained ...

Scientists have named and described a new “giant” fossil spider species that lived between 11 and 16 million years ago in what is now modern-day Australia. The spider was discovered at the ...